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Just tasted our lovely home made Amaretto, we made some apricot jam earlier in the year and wanted to use the stones for something so we added them to some brandy along with some syrup, we're well impressed with the results, also on the go is wild strawberry and cherry, elderberry and grape...

There are lot of large dandelion leaves at the moment, so I thought I'd pass on this recipe I was given by a Greek chap who used to come into the community garden I worked in, dolmas are a simple dish of rice wrapped in vine leaves traditionally, the Greek Cypriots that moved to London adapted...

I bought my Fiskars X3 billhook last autumn as I had around six ton of Hazel to clear and I wanted to keep everything that was above 1" thick for the campfires, I was initially going to buy a traditional wooden handled billhook, but once I picked up the X3 it was no competition, it only weighs...

Just had my first wild strawberry this morning, a bit later than normal due to the wet spring, the False Acacia flowers are abundant (nice nutty taste), lots of sorrel, hedge garlic, lambs lettuce and watercress, good crop of Elder flowers, hopefully going to make some elderflower cordial on...

Hi, I hope folks here wouldn't mind pointing me in the right direction regarding my campsite in France, at the moment we have five tipis in our woodland campsite, more luxury than roughing it we even provide breakfast. Normally we open from June to mid September, next year for May June and...

Hello everyone from sunny France (at last), I've a general interest in bushcraft and the great outdoors, I'm a keen environmentalist and conservationist, spent many a wet weekend back in blighty repairing dry stone walls, digging ponds and managing woods, I moved to France a few years ago and...